The presence of human papillomavirus (HPV) by itself should not affect your ability to get pregnant. But in some cases, having HPV can increase your risk of developing precancerous or cancerous cells in your cervix, which could affect both your fertility and your ability to carry a baby to term.

It depends on what strain it its. there are about 100 different strains of HPV. There are strains that cause genital warts and there are strains that cause cellular changes that are precancerous (all different stages).

the next step will probably be a colposcopy (looking at cervix with binocular type instrument in the office) and biopsy of any region that looks abnormal. Did they tell you about this? did they schedule it?? if not I'd call them and ask why. Did your pap come back abnormal? if it came back normal with HPV then they might not schedule the colposcopy biopsy.

As for your question no it WILL not affect fertility... you can even have a colposcopy biopsy while pregnant :) no fears. I've had it done before. :) Please feel free to ask any more questions :)

I had it years ago, it cause a few bouts of pre-cancerous cells on my cervix. I had them removed twice, this was back in like 2001-2002. The only affect I've had was that when I was induced with my son, the scar tissue from the procedures to remove the cells wouldn't allow my cervix to open past 5 cm. So after being stuck at 5 for hours they when ahead and did a c-section.

Luckily I didn't have the warts, but Dr said that if I were the only thing it would do was make me have a c-section if they were there when I went into labor. That never happened.

Good luck, it is the farthest thing from the end of the world, and shouldn't have any effect on your fertility!

My understanding is that its extremely common and about 50% of men and women get it at some point and the body clears it up on its own most of the time. It shouldnt affect your fertility, so don't worry too much about it. Google is your friend in this case :)

I was in the same boat as Amanda. Had an abnormal pap - did a colposcopy biopsy - found precancerous cells - had them removed with cryotherapy (freezing off the abnormal precancerous cells) and then a 6 month period of healing. Did another pap - came back negative! That was about a year ago, and when we decided to TTC in December, doc said that it would cause NO problems with TTC. Now I did not ask about the actually delivery, but I'm hoping since at my last pap she said she couldn't even tell where she had froze off the cells, that scar tissue is hopefully not a problem for me when it comes to giving birth!

Hopefully the doc has let you know what your next step(s) will be, and everything should be fine! But I totally understand, kinda scary!

the scar tissue you are talking about is called "cervical stenosis" (i have this.. to the point that i have to be dilated to have a pap)... the scar tissue is what causes the fertility problems but can be overcome through IUI or IVF (unfortunately those methods didn't work for me, but they do work for most). the scar tissue can also cause your cervix to be incompetent (sp?) which means it would need to be sewn shut with a cervical cerclage (sp?) after the 1st trimester.

as long as you are getting AF and you don't have to be dilated to have your pap then most likely your scar tissue hasn't gotten to the severity of mine.. and conception shouldn't be an issue. basically the theory my gyno had was that if AF was coming out than a sperm should be able to get in.

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Thank you all so much! My doctor actually called me back today to tell me that I tested positive because I had one of the gardacil vacines when I was younger. I asked him if it could have effected the test, and when i was talking with him he said no, but he called me today to tell me that it CAN. So i DONT have HPV. I'm so grateful for all the answers you all gave me!

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